Dense Growth: Writing the Pacific Northwest

Literature & Fiction

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In this collection you will find everything from stories of lost luggage and mystical experiences in very different cultures to the profound emotions experienced when the author finds herself far from home on September 11, 2001. In FOREIGN GROUND 18 writers give their perspective on travel outside the U.S in 41 memorable offerings of both poetry and prose.

Foreign Ground: Travelers' Tales

Travel

Travel Writing

Chris Ransick¿s first full length collection of poetry, Never Summer, has been hailed by one critic who described the work as "accessible, haunting, echoing familiar emotions in brilliant language that, quite frankly, is amazing." Another offered the following comments: "These are carefully crafted, hard-hitting, real-life poems. Ransick¿s unerring sense of place and evocative imagery range boldly and broadly from childhood through fatherhood, from the quietude of the garden to the majesty and endlessness of the Western landscape. The reader will not go away hungry."

Never Summer

Ransick, Chris

Poetry

In original essays commissioned by the Wyoming Center for the Book 19 writers with roots in the state, including Annie Proulx and Robert Roripaugh, tell how that "rough country" has influenced their work. In their essays and accompanying excerpts from their poetry and fiction, these writers bring new understanding to the American West.

Deep West: A Literary Tour of Wyoming

History & Criticism

A level-headed look at how we might learn to live in today's world through better understanding the motives and interests of those around us. "I am no saint. Nor am I a devil. This essay in not a polemic against the United States...rather, it speaks to the human condition."

Common Sense

Politics & Social Sciences

Schuyler, Peter

Social Sciences

This Storied Land: A Montana Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Mandler, Lou

Community & Culture

The story of Elkol, Wyoming is history at its best, documenting all aspects of life in a western coal camp through the people who lived there. Life in the camps was often hard, but those stalwart souls rose above the difficulties and managed to come together as a close knit community. This is their story. Here are the facts about the business of coal, the hard labor of mining, the struggles of the workers and the unions, the social arrangements, housing, schools and the place of women in this largely emigrant community. With the added enlightenment of newspaper articles, oral interviews and more than 140 photographs, Elkol's past comes to life. Though the coal camp way of life is gone, it lives on in the memories of those who lived in or passed through those camps. Elkol was at once unique as a community and representative of all coal camps of the time and this book is a direct link to that past.

Echoes Of Elkol, The Story Of A Western Coal Camp

History

WRIGHT, Dorothy

Tratnik, Norris

Americas

The first book in the Women & Words series, Listening to Stones brings together the voices of two significant poets. They share many qualities yet are opposite in other ways. One sleeps with dogs, the other with cats. One is married, one is not. Both are mothers. One lives in town, the other in the country but they share a love for and deep understanding of the natural world. Both have faced loss and looked it right in the eye, seeking understanding through the poet's method of putting pen to paper. They both live, observe and create in diverse ways but you will find their work weaves and flows between one artist's eye and the other's in a remarkable and deeply satisfying pattern, making whole cloth that wraps the reader in the comfort of the familiar and the joy of the unexpected.

Listening To Stones

Meury, Janet S.

Ruble, Sheila

Odyssey In Hell is the heartbreaking record of a Bi-Polar patient's stay in a state mental institution that invites the reader into the mind of a man consumed by his illness and desperately seeking-if not a cure-then at least some tools to live with it. Wright's journal entries track the frightening mood swings of this affliction as he reflects on his his life, the medications he takes and the people he meets at the hospital. He writes about the problems in his past and his dreams of a future, sorely tested when he returns home to find that a family member has betrayed his trust and thrown him into a vortex of events that threaten his fragile new grasp on hope. This book will help you understand a life at the mercy of an erratic thought process. The author knows what it means to feel normal and think clearly but he is robbed of the ability to depend on his own mind by a disorder that refuses to allow him something we all take for granted.

Odyssey in Hell

Wright, Wayne A.

Professionals & Academics

Glencoe was just one of Wyoming's many small coal camps that was established in the early twentieth century. Some coal camps survived beyond World War II, some lasted a little longer and some flourished and grew into the great coal producing towns of the twenty-first which still supply coal for the nation. Though Glencoe's history is brief, it is rich in the stories of her hardworking people-the miners and their families, the union, the schools and the mine itself. Though life in that small coal camp was hard, the people pulled together to create a rich sense of community and the times were not devoid of simple entertainment, of fun and of friends. As they did in Echoes of Elkol, Dorothy Wright and her collaborators have once again pieced together the story of a small coal mining community in southwestern Wyoming and its two even smaller neighbors, Blazon and Star Mine. Gathering information from all quarters-oral histories, historical records, photos from the archives and from family collections and newspaper accounts- and weaving it together into the cloth of a memorable story that has been all but lost until now. Here, in Glencoe, Spelling Out Western Coal Camp History, the past has been made whole and available to anyone who values the story of the people who have contributed to the history of Wyoming and, indeed, the country.

Glencoe, Spelling Out Western Coal Camp History

Scigliano, Frank

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